How to extract the first and final words from a string?

Question

I have a small problem with something I need to do in school...

My task is the get a raw input string from a user (text = raw_input()) and I need to pri

Answer 1

Some might say, there is never too many answer's using regular expressions (in this case, this looks like the worst solutions..):

>>> import re
>>> string = "Hello SO user, How are you"
>>> matches = re.findall(r'^\w+|\w+$', string)
>>> print(matches)
['Hello', 'you']